An astonishingly few guests checked their smart phones for breaking news at the Monaco garden party Wednesday night. Who had to when White House counselor Kellyanne Conway was right there…mingling, chatting… with Monaco’s ambassador Maguy Maccario Doyle and scores of others.

The scene, almost like a LA movie set, was the gorgeous patio at Ambassador Maguy Maccario Doyle’s residence in Kalorama. Fortunately, the rain gods stayed away.

(Photo by: Natalia Janetti)Architect Theo Adamstein glances up from conversations on the patio

The mid-summer soirée drew diplomats, aerospace executives, government and business leaders, as well as art and cultural personalities. The buffet was truly uptown fare: salmon, steak filet, salads, cheese and petite desserts.

“July has a very special meaning for all of us in the Principality,” said Monaco’s Ambassador. “It was July 12, 2005 that our sovereign Prince Albert ascended to the throne of Monaco,” She then noted that his late mother, Princess Grace, was from the United States (where she had been film star Grace Kelly).

She said that on September 6, Monaco will partner with The WashingtonDiplomat newspaper and Dr. Ellen Stofan, director of the Smithsonian’s Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, for an ambassador insider series on Monaco’s role in the future of air and space travel, and the importance of earth and environmental science.